
Atul Kumar is a synthetic organic chemist, Professor & Chief Scientist at
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) and Chairperson Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division
Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI) at
Lucknow
Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and divisio ...
, India and a
Dean at
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Raebareli.
Academic work
Kumar has about 24 years experience in
drug design
Drug design, often referred to as rational drug design or simply rational design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target. The drug is most commonly an organic small molecule that ac ...
, medicinal chemistry and Green Chemistry
Dr.Kumar's major contributions are invention of Anti-
osteoporosis Drug candidate CDRI-99/373 (CENTHANK), which is an currently in
phase 1 clinical trial and NCE Anti-cancer Compound CDRI-S-007-1235 is currently in Pre-clinical stage.
References
External links
Official website at CDRI
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Indian organic chemists
20th-century Indian chemists
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